Climate Change (fka man-made global warming)
Global warming costs us.
Temperature rise due to natural conditions.
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Temperature rise due to natural conditions.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
While Republican lawmakers are split as to whether climate change actually exists
They changed the name from "man made global warming" to "climate change" just so they could write sentences like that one.
Reality like this:
The north-western US has experienced 100 years of warming, leading to wildfires and infestations of pests like pine beetles. But the extra heat seems to be linked to natural changes in the winds of the Pacific rather than human-caused climate change.
is why peeps were saying man made global warming was bullshit or not a conclusion that we should be jumping to...
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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Madness.
Revenue?
However, since we became the undisputed greatest nation on earth in the 1980s, America has been obsessed with tax cuts, seeming to forget that revenue is what made us a great nation. We now have a continuous revenue problem that is destroying the infrastructure of our nation.
Revenue?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Right-wingers paint global warming as a fear-mongering leftist plot designed to kill jobs, hurt GDP, promote socialism, increase taxes, and take away our constitutional freedoms, the basic talking points of Big Oil and energy billionaires.
A millennium of Dust Bowls.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Weather Channel co-founder blasted by the Weather Channel.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
That about sums it up. Personally I predict we'll never hit peak oil. Not because there's an infinite supply, but because about the time we do start to peak we'll have figured out an efficient means of producing it ourselves from other renewable energy sources. At that point oil just becomes a liquid battery.
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2014 hottest year on record.
rth's average surface temperature was the warmest since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
December also was the warmest month ever recorded, and was among five months that set records, the agencies reported Friday.
The combined land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20thcentury average, according to NOAA. The five months that set records were May, June, August, September and December, NOAA said. October tied for warmest, according to the agency's report.
The data add to a two-decade string of record warmth planet-wide. Except for 1998, the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2002, according to NOAA.
It's not me, it's someone else.
The opposite happened. Most climate models analyzed in the study predicted Antarctica would shrink between 1979 and 2005, but instead south pole sea ice levels increased during that time. Going a step further, sea ice levels have only increased since 2006, hitting all-time highs for sea ice coverage in September of last year.
An inconvenient truth indeed.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
FB is blowing up this story today about a glacier in East Antartica melting.
Note the opening paragraph:
Now here's another article on the topic.
From that second article:
So it has happened before, although probably not when we were around.
However, it doesn't stop the Washington Post article from pinning the blame for this on humans or calling the damage "irreversible".
When the sun inevitably expands and consumes the Earth, I wonder how we'll blame ourselves for that?
Note the opening paragraph:
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise.
Now here's another article on the topic.
From that second article:
Because much of the California-sized interior basin lies below sea level, its overlying thicker ice is susceptible to rapid loss if warm ocean currents sufficiently thin coastal ice. Given that previous work has shown that the basin has drained its ice to the ocean and filled again many times in the past, this study uncovers a means for how that process may be starting again.
So it has happened before, although probably not when we were around.
However, it doesn't stop the Washington Post article from pinning the blame for this on humans or calling the damage "irreversible".
When the sun inevitably expands and consumes the Earth, I wonder how we'll blame ourselves for that?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell